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May 15
I picked up this $5 VESA Local Bus I/O card at the System Source Swap Meet. Let's test it out! Time for a 🧵 Image
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This card is a SIIG Professional VL. And it has your typical I/O as you can see here: dual IDE, FDD, 2 serial, 1 parallel, and 1 game Image
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We'll start out with a base case, which includes the Promise EIDE 4030 card that is installed. I did do a quick bootup with this card installed, and it was successful. Image
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May 15
spent 3 weekends getting frustrated that every "AI interior design" tool gave me generic studio shots that looked nothing like my actual apartment.

so i built one that works from the photo of your real room.
upload the room you actually live in. pick a style. get back a render of that exact room redesigned.

30+ styles — japandi, scandi, mid-century, industrial, cottagecore, you name it.

deroomai.com
where people seem to get the most use:

- planning a reno before committing $
- airbnb hosts staging before the shoot
- moving in, picking colors before paint

kitchen renders end up being the popular one: deroomai.com/ai-kitchen-red…
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May 15
10 prompts that feel like cheating in 2026.

Most people still haven’t discovered these.

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1. The “Second Brain” Prompt

“Organize all my ideas, goals, and tasks into a structured system with priorities, timelines, and next actions.”

Most people have too many ideas and no structure.

This turns mental chaos into a clear roadmap.
2. The “Life Direction” Prompt

“Based on my interests, strengths, goals, and personality, suggest the best career paths or online business opportunities for me.”

This is powerful because most people aren’t lazy.

They’re just lost.

Clarity changes everything.
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May 15
I recently wrote on Marc Elias responding to the Virginia Supreme Court's adverse opinion on gerrymandering by reminding citizens that they can eliminate the entire Virginia government. Elias cannot understand why I and others find his posting notable...jonathanturley.org/2026/05/13/dem…
...He notes that he is merely quoting the Constitution after all. It is like responding to an adverse trade ruling by the WTO by quoting Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 on the ability of Congress to declare war. It is a rather extreme measure to invoke...tinyurl.com/5dhz5eur
...The posting came as Democrats pushed to sack-and-pack the Virginia Supreme Court, reminding people that they could go even further in taking down part or all of the Virginia government for being denied the right to effectively eliminate all Republican representations in the purple state... jonathanturley.org/2026/05/10/gut…
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May 15
I'm not sure what your point is. We define CEC as the ability to use radar and sensor data from multiple ships, aircraft, and other platforms into a single, shared fire-control-grade picture. So yeah, the E-2D being CEC means that it can pass fire control grade info to shooters.
As for why X-band is the usual choice for fighters, it boils down to multiple reasons such as antenna size and associated angular accuracy, integration constraints, and beam agility. Using S-band or lower for fighter antennas is nonsensical due to the limited physical aperture...
...and integration problems (compare the size of X-band and S-band TRMs). 
All in all, X-band is just the sweetspot for sub-meter diameter antennas, and building an S-band GP fighter radar would be nonsensical.
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May 15
DECODING NOIDA PROTEST: A PLAN BY THE COMMUNISTS TO START CIVIL WAR IN INDIA.

This is an extremely important thread.

Exclusive details about the entire plan and characters behind it.

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2. Two months before the planned Noida protest, a meeting was held in the Delhi Revolutionary Worker Party of India (RWPI).

Lawyer Colin Gonsalves was the main speaker in this meeting. Image
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3. From the very next day, the Marxist cadre of RWPI, who were present in that meeting, started to mobilize workers on the ground. Image
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May 15
You spend 8 hours in bed every night, but still wake up exhausted.

Coffee, magnesium, even meditation don't help…Here's what's really going on:

1. Waking at 3-4 AM.
Your eyes snap open. Mind instantly ON. Racing thoughts you can't shut off.

This isn't insomnia. Cortisol naturally peaks between 2-4 AM.

When your baseline is already high, that peak hits like a startle response.

You wake to your own alarm system. Image
2. Cold hands all day.

Most people blame cold hands on bad circulation. It's not.

Your nervous system is in survival mode → blood pulled to your core.

Your hands stay cold even at night while you "sleep."

That's why 8 hours doesn't restore you. You never actually rested. Image
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May 15
1/ Russian warbloggers are mystified and angry at a recruitment advert for the Russian army posted on the Facebook-like social network VK. Unlike the usual ads, which show Russian soldiers as muscular supermen, it's attracting attention for being a lot more realistic. ⬇️ Image
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2/ Sergei Moskalkov, who spotted the advert, declares angrily:

"This isn't a fake, not a disinformation-like collage, but a genuine advertisement for contract service in the Russian Armed Forces.

This is a VK ad.

#fifthcolumn
#lawlessness"
3/ Lev Vershinin suggests a return to the classics:

"Since Sergei Moskalkov never lies and isn't particularly prone to jokes, I'll take it on faith."
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May 15
The Beijing summit ended with one brutal reality:

Taiwan is more vulnerable now than before the summit began -- and more than in decades

America’s power is declining since the Iran war — and world leaders are adjusting fast
-- Iran humiliated Trump’s envoys
-- Merz openly spoke of U.S. weakness
-- Now Xi pressing harder on Taiwan

US alliances are fragmenting and rivals are taking full advantageImage
For 30 years, the post–Cold War order rested on one assumption:

the United States could ultimately dominate escalation anywhere on earth

The Iran war shattered that belief

Not because Iran defeated America militarily.

Because it survived, gaines power, and exposed limits of US power the world has not seen since Vietnam.
The new bomb damage assessments are a geopolitical earthquake

Satellite imagery shows more damage to US bases in Gulf than Washington admitted

Leaked intelligence says Iran retains vast missile/ drone capabilities despite six weeks of bombing.

Beijing is studying every frame

Taiwan should be on higher alert tonight
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May 15
🚨“Why COVID could be to blame for the rise in deadly meningitis”

“When people regularly catch Meningitis B bacteria, they usually live harmlessly in the nose.”

“The problem is that COVID may have made our cells more susceptible to the bacteria.”

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A growing number of scientists have been sounding the alarm recently about how repeated Covid infections may be damaging our immune systems…

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This is not a particularly new idea; it’s been discussed in scientific circles for years already.

Back in early 2023, the World Health Network (@TheWHN) published this article which summarised the latest research on Covid’s impact on the immune system.

whn.global/scientific/cov…Image
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May 15
I just launched a free tool that connects federal education datasets that have never been linked together visually before.

Every public school district in America. Spending, test scores, staffing, civil rights data, referendums — all in one place.

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Education data in the US is scattered across a dozen federal agencies in incompatible formats.

Census F-33 for finances. NAEP for test scores. EdFacts for state assessments. CRDC for civil rights. CCD for staffing. IDEA for special ed.

No one has put them together — until now.
What's included:

• District finance from Census Bureau (per-pupil spending, revenue sources, property taxes)
• Demographics from ACS 2022 (income, poverty, home values)
• NAEP scores (math & reading, grades 4 & 8)
• EdFacts proficiency trends (2009-2021)
• Staffing from Common Core of Data
• Civil rights discipline, absenteeism, restraint data from CRDC
• Special education rates from IDEA
• School referendum election results (WI, CO, WA, MN, IN)
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May 15
ICT's 2022 Model💡

In this thread, I've compiled 10 chart examples of Silver Bullet Model.

Build to enhance your chart understanding. Image
ICT's 2022 Model - Chart Example 1 Image
ICT's 2022 Model - Chart Example 2 Image
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